It doesn't get easier does it? I think it's because you get angrier at the sheer waste of time and money fighting for bog standard provision in the knowledge that LAs can make you do this time and time again simply because they CAN. Because there is no oversight. They are a law unto themselves and they can always make up some crap afterwards about why leaving your child completly without support was 'good administration'
I really don't understand how some people can do this for a living with such relish. Our Ed officer is a class A fuckwit but a malicious cow to boot. Really deeply nasty, all done with a smile on her face. Yet she doesn't know the basics of SEN law and has probably never heard of the Equality Act. She circulated deeply untruthful and unpleasant comments about me before the last Tribunal, saying she wants to 'use them at Tribunal' and helped to get me labelled vexatious simply because she couldn't answer basic questions about their decision-making.
Her attitude is 'how dare you ask'! 
She is a bully who is used to throwing her weight around and getting what she wants.
Her line manager is even worse - a profoundly awful and unpleasant woman who will sit and tell you 'it's all about the children' while she leaves your child without provision.
The whole thing is a charade for external auditors, pathfinders crap etc. In the meantime, they just make you fight for every crumb and the files show such apparent pleasure at bullying people (school staff) as they sit doing nothing, that you can't help but loathe them.
So the Ed officer has emailed saying she wants the meeting to be 'positive' (ie me to behave myself) and to get DS back to school. We are long past that and she knows that she is just being inflammatory and provocative but there is nothing to stop them taking this line and pursuing it in spite of what everyone else says.
In reality, this lot are just not going to work constructively. They are never going to sit and chat about tutor packages. They will make me fight every step of the way because they can. Why would they not?
So I'm now thinking - I should JR the fuckers. They will happily tie me up in Tribunals until the cows come home. Why should I let them?